It's in the company of many New York City public high
schools, which fared well on the list - seven of the top 10 schools in New York
state were city public high schools.

"I'm excited for all of the New York City high schools that are
in the top 40 on the list," Tech principal Vincent Maniscaclo said this
afternoon. "Right now, we have to figure out what else to provide our students
in order to give them the greatest advantage in terms of competing with
students throughout the country."

Tech was the only Staten Island school to make the top 100
nationally or in the state.

The analysis by U.S. News and World Report, famous for its rankings
of educational institutions, said the participation rate in Advanced Placement
exams for the year it analyzed was 82 percent. It rated students 100 percent
proficient in math and in English. The data used for the 2012 rankings is from the
2009-2010 school year.

Tech has been lauded in the rankings before. Last year, it
was named the 13th best high school in the nation for math and
science instruction -- and the best in New York City in those subjects, edging
out tough competition like Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, which placed
five spots back at 18th in the nation.

In 2011, Tech ranked 34th
in the magazine's overall rating of high schools across the nation, and has
made the list each year since U.S. News started the ranking in 2007.

Tech joined the ranks of the city's elite specialized high
schools in 2005. Students must take an exam to earn entry to the school, which
is the only specialized school in the borough.